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Thanks Bob2, I believe Atlas bought the molds and will be releasing the Diffco cars soon.

https://shop.atlasrr.com/c-160...rating-dump-car.aspx

The Diffco cars have a cool motorized dumping feature when used with an accessory track.  I tried to power the car with (2) 3V coin cells and a reed switch to activate, but I think it was too much current or back EMF for the batteries as the motor would stop half way and the batteries got warm.  (Testing with my bench power supply showed 6 VDC worked with 60 mA of current draw.)  I might use a rapid discharge hopper with larger battery inside to power a few of these in the future.

Ron045, Boilermaker was correct (thanks) in that I am re-lettering the cars for my RR and "patching out" the old reporting mark.  Below are some photos of real life patch jobs.  I have plans to make a patched NS wood chip hopper.

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